Friday, February 6, 2009

We are on week four in our Kelly Minter study on idols in our lives, No Other Gods. Remember that an idol is something other than God that we serve, or that masters us.

Idols can be anything from anger, bitterness, jealousy, to an addiction. Almost anything in our lives can turn into an idol. Even something that isn't necessarily bad or wrong. We can make idols out of good things. We can elevate our families to a position above God. We can even put our church activities above God.

Why do we choose idols? We can choose them our of a perceived need in our lives. We can choose an idol because of pain in our lives. We can choose an idol because we think God is being silent and we need to help Him out. The reasons are endless. As are the idols.

God commanded us in Exodus 20:3 that we are to have no other Gods before Him. If we serve other gods, our hearts and minds cannot be fully on Him. Our idols will lie to us, steal from us and ultimately harm us.

I think at some point in everyone's life we have wanted something very badly and thought that our lives wouldn't be complete without it. But the biggest problem with idols is that they can't satisfy us. How many times have we gotten something we badly wanted, material things, a relationship, etc. and still our souls still can't be satisfied? The only thing that will ever satisfy us completely is Jesus. Not our families. Or things. Or status. Just Jesus.

3 comments:

Your post makes me think of my favorite valentine art from when our youngest teen was a wee one. It is a pink heart with a hole in the center. She's taped a cross on a pink background (like a flap) over the hole. On the big heart in her child-like handwriting she's penned: Only Jesus can fill your heart.

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I live in the beautiful mountains of North Georgia. I am married to Robert, the love of my life. He makes life interesting and he makes me laugh. We are learning to love this new phase of our lives: the empty nest. Life is good.